SAP software recommendations?

[Drellingore]

'ello folks,

 

Is Elmhurst's Design SAP 10 the go-to for DIY SAP calculations?

 

I need to do SAP calcs for our barn conversion, and we ideally need to get to 110+ for the best possible interest rate discount from Ecology Building Society. We were previously aiming for EnerPHit standards (Passivhaus for conversions), but we'd need to go through all the palaver of certifying to get the discount from the mortgage lender. I want to try the calcs myself rather than paying someone else to play 'thermal battleships' via an email exchange.

 

We appointed a certified Passivhaus professional, and feel pretty let down by his dogmatic ways: for weeks we've been asking about solar glass, and he eventually delivered a design that required 77% opaque shutters on every window, including north and east-facing, which would require a new planning application. He refused to look into solar glass ("it'll change the quality of the light" and "I've never used it before") and then wanted to charge an extra hourly rate to do the thing we'd been asking for for weeks. So I got a Passivhaus licence, and within twenty minutes had proven that solar glass would mean no shutters required while staying within heat demand and overheating limits.

 

BTW, for folks that remember my journey to this point: Grand Designs have commissioned the episode. Paperwork is to be signed next week.

[SteamyTea]

12 minutes ago, Drellingore said:

Grand Designs have commissioned the episode.

So you will be let down by the window supplier, get pregnant and have a death.  Not to mention KM talking in whispers behind your back, but to the camera.

You can tell him that he was right about a comment I made that he replied to, was about thermal mass, and I was a teacher when I made it.

[JohnMo]

Hope your house is a behemoth of a house he hates them.

[BotusBuild]

32 minutes ago, SteamyTea said:

So you will be let down by the window supplier, get pregnant and have a death

Don't forget going over budget

[SteamyTea]

Just now, BotusBuild said:

Don't forget going over budget

Shopping in Budgens will do that for you.

 

[JohnMo]

2 hours ago, SteamyTea said:

Shopping in Budgens will do that for you.

 

Going to Costco does, wife wanted some more dishcloths, managed to spend £300, on what not much idea.